News about People You Know: Stories

by Robert S. Phillips

Critics have compared Robert Phillips's storytelling ability in his first two collections, Land of Lost Content and Public Landing Revisited, to deMaupassant and Sherwood Anderson. All the stories are set in a mythical small town called Public Landing. Publishers Weekly said: "Phillips's vision of small town America in the '50s and '60s is simultaneously jaundiced and nostalgic . . . both funny and agonizing in its complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881515451
• ISBN13: 9781881515456
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"